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By Donna Bowater, www.express.co.uk
The world's leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.
A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was "little evidence" for its claims about global warming.
It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made "substantive findings" based on little proof.
The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC's hugely embarrassing 2007 benchmark climate change report, which contained exaggerated and false claims that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.
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By Matt Patterson, The Washington Times
Eco-autocrats are exposed as frauds
Poor Al Gore. As if an impending divorce and allegations of sexual misconduct from an Oregon masseuse weren't bad enough (he has since been cleared of wrongdoing), the apparent collapse of "cap-and-trade" legislation in the U.S. Senate has driven the former vice president to despair.
As reported by Steve Milloy on his blog Green Hell, Mr. Gore recently admitted to supporters in a conference call, "[T]his [cap-and-trade] battle has not been successful and is pretty much over for this year." Mr. Gore blamed everyone and their monkey for the failure of Congress to pass comprehensive climate legislation, including his former colleagues: "The U.S. Senate has failed us," he lamented, "the federal government has failed us."
Illustration: Al Gore melting by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times
The fortunes of Mr. Gore's global-warming crusade certainly are in decline: A recent Rasmussen poll found that just 34 percent of respondents "feel human activity is the main contributor" to global warming and that the percentage of those who consider global warming a "serious issue" has "trended down slightly since last November."
Reminds me of the Brave Sir Robin sketch from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
By Marc Morano - Climate Depot
From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James Cameron challenges climate skeptics to debate and then bails out at last minute
ASPEN COLORADO: Hollywood director James Cameron challenged three high profile global warming skeptics to a public debate at a global warming and energy conference. But Cameron backed out of the debate at the last minute after environmentalists "came out of the woodwork" to warn him not to engage in a debate with skeptics because it was not in his best interest.
Cameron challenged Andrew Breitbart, Climate Depot's Marc Morano and filmmaker Ann McElhinney of 'Not Evil Just Wrong.' The debate was already in the program for the Aspen American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) summit. The website program described the agreed to debate as "AREDAY Climate Change Debate: Reality or Fiction?"
After setting up the public global warming debate, Cameron and his negotiator then changed formats multiple times and initially said it would be open to the media and then said he would only participate if it was private with no recording devices. The skeptics agreed to all the changes. According to AREDAY organizers, activist Joseph Romm of Climate Progress urged Cameron not to go ahead with the debate as well.
Cameron's cancellation of the agreed to debate did not happen until one debate participant (Morano) was already in mid-air, flying from DC to Aspen on Saturday August 21 to attend the debate.
Russell Cook, American Thinker
In his August 18 piece, Thomas Lifson mentions part of the logic behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call to investigate the funding of opposition against the Ground Zero mosque. When we also consider how the liberal left has aimed this 'funding accusation' tactic with great success over a period of 15+ years at scientists skeptical of man-caused global warming, her otherwise bizarre suggestion sounds like something that should be no surprise.
That is the accusation saying 'big coal and oil' funds those scientists, thus they are hopelessly corrupt and not worthy of consideration. The mainstream media seems to have taken this accusation at face value. Considering the sheer amount of anti-skeptic bias I found at the PBS NewsHour from 1996 to the present, as I detailed in my 7/29 American Thinker article "The Left and Its Talking Points", it may very well explain why the general public has not had the widespread opportunity to hear about skeptics' side of the issue.
Here we go...
Eric Zorn, Chicago TribuneEvery time there's a big blizzard or an extended cold snap, you can count on the climate-change skeptics, particularly those who host radio shows or draw editorial cartoons, to make "Inconvenient Truth" jokes and rehash an ironic appeal for more global warming.
Such wags go completely silent when we're clobbered by a heat wave, as we are being clobbered this weekend. Which, while inconsistent, is appropriate. Weather is not climate. Temperatures and precipitation levels are always going to exhibit dramatic swings.
Consulting today's thermometer for evidence either way about climate trends is ""like assessing how the economy is doing by looking at the change in your pocket," said a Columbia University professor quoted last month in the New York Times.
You knew this was going to happen, we have a warm summer (as was predicted because of the recent increased solar activity) and all the Chicken Littles in the mainstream press are running around screaming "The Globe Is Warming! The Globe Is Warming!"
Eric, you're right, it is hot out there, so I am officially changing my position, as of now I am for Global Cooling!
Of course this happens to me almost every August and in September I probably will be more neutral on the issue, but by January I'm pretty sure I'll be rooting for Global Warming again.
Natural News
A recent report issued by the European Union has revealed that biofuels, or fuel made from living, renewable sources, is not really all that beneficial to the environment. Rather than reduce the net carbon footprint as intended, biofuels can produce four times more carbon dioxide pollution than conventional fossil fuels do.
Common biofuels like corn ethanol, which has become a popular additive in gasoline, and soy biodiesel, which is being used in commercial trucks and other diesel-fueled vehicles, are often considered to be environmentally-friendly because they are renewable. But in order to grow enough of these crops to use for both food and fuel, large swaths of land around the world are being converted into crop fields for growing biofuels.
In other words, millions of acres of lush rainforests are becoming corn and soy fields in order to provide enough of these resources for their new uses. The net carbon footprint of growing crops for fuel is far higher than what is emitted from simple fossil fuel usage.
Russia Today
Russia's deadly wildfires, the smog-filled cities and poor harvest, are being seen by some environmentalists as signs of man-made climate change. But Piers Corbyn of the Weather Action Foundation says the heatwave is only down to climate cycles...
From Farmfest 2010, with all the previous coverage of various candidates this must be noted as no retraction from the Emmer camp has been received. per the Associated Press:
Tom Emmer and the 3 Democrat front runners all appear in favor of SUBSIDIZING Biofuels with our tax dollars during these dire economic times. To us at Minnesotans for Global Warming seems irresponsible at best.
The Associated Press: Emmer, Dems skirmish over biofuels at Farmfest
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REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. -- The sharp differences on ethanol and biofuels between Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer and the three Democrats vying to challenge him in the fall became clear Wednesday during a farm-focused debate.
...After the debate, he said he wouldn't cut ethanol subsidies the state has promised existing ethanol plants. But he declined to elaborate on his plans for ethanol after state subsidies end in 2013. He said he would wait to see whether the federal government adopts an ethanol mandate.
Kelliher and her Democratic rivals, Mark Dayton and Matt Entenza, all support the mandates and subsidies...
While we haven't heard from any other candidates we welcome their comments.
What do you folks in Minnesota think?
Record cold in Argentina? Per a China News Service...
Cold wave in Argentina leads to 28 deaths
BUENOS AIRES, July 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 28 people had died, 16 from hypothermia, as a polar cold wave swept across Argentina during the past week, authorities said Monday...
Then Per Bloomberg news Argentina Colder than Antarctica Argentina is importing record amounts of energy as the coldest winter in 40 years drives up demand and causes natural-gas shortages, prompting Dow Chemical Co. and steelmaker Siderar SAIC to scale back production.
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Ironically why does this go hardly mentioned by main stream media and why do I have to get this from the Chinese media? instead they try to make us believe 2010 is the hottest on record... yeah right!
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On Record : Discovery News - Aug 9
Jul 16, 2010 ... Last month was the warmest June on record, and so far, 2010 is the warmest year ever recorded, according to data released yesterday by the ...
news.discovery.com/earth/heat-record-climate-change.html
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The US Media reports on this: per Google the search
"hottest year on record 2010" About 14,700,000 results 2010 on Track to Be Warmest
How can they draw this conclusion its only august and I don't trust their data or their agenda.
The "coldest year on record" yielded on google About 902,000 results (0.26 seconds)
While all this occurs, the media focuses on the Arctic melting in the summer and the Antarctic melting in the winter. While ignoring the natural cycle where the Antarctic GROWS in the summer and the Arctic GROWS in the winter time. Instead they focus on 1/2 the story which sells sensational climate change, ignoring that the climate has been changing since the beginning of time.
There are rumors of Brett's retirement and I say don't believe them. This was made last year but it still holds true, to the tune of Donavon's "There is a Mountain".
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Is It Hot in Here? Must Be Global Warming.
By Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times
In any debate over climate change, conventional wisdom holds that there is no reflex more absurd than invoking the local weather.
And yet this year's wild weather fluctuations seem to have motivated people on both sides of the issue to stick a finger in the air and declare the matter resolved -- in their favor.
"Within psychology, it's called motivated reasoning, or the confirmation bias," explained Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Project on Climate Change Communication at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. "People are looking for evidence of any kind that validates or reinforces or justifies what they already believe."
Last February, for example, as a freak winter storm paralyzed much of the East Coast, relatives of Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who is a skeptic of climate change, came to Washington and erected an igloo.
They topped it with a cheeky sign asking passers-by to "Honk if you ♥ global warming." Another sign, added later, christened the ice dome "Al Gore's new home."
By Elmer Beauregard
If you haven't figured it out by now, I am a Tea Party guy. I go to all the rallies and even have had booths at the rallies, I love the Tea Party movement. Lately however there seems to be some confusion about what the Tea Party stands for. Politicians are either trying to capture some of its energy or trying to besmirch it. So to clarify what I think the Tea Party is all about, I made this list.
Top Ten Things That Define The Tea Party
10. The Tea Party is all about Freedom, personal and otherwise
9. The Tea Party is True Grassroots, not top down authority
8. The Tea Party is for Protecting our Borders
7. The Tea Party is Against Big Government and the Nanny State
6. The Tea Party is Against Racism in all forms
5. The Tea Party is Against Globalism and the New World Order
4. The Tea Party is Against The Military Industrial Complex / War
3. The Tea Party Is Against Carbon Taxes and Global Warming Hype
2. The Tea Party is Anti-Federal Reserve and International Banks
1. The Tea Party is Anti-Tax
By Elmer Beauregard
The east coast has a few warm days and they are calling it the hottest year on record.
They can say that its the warmest year on record because they are cooking the books. They are measuring "worldwide" temperature from less and less weather stations which are mostly in heavily populated areas which tend to be warmer.
If you Google "2010 hottest year on record" you will get thousand of articles. This ties into my first Law of Global Warming which I call "The Chicken Little Syndrome" which states:
After an unusual warm spell, some people think that means the globe will burn up, so they run around screaming "The Globe Is Warming! The Globe Is Warming!"
This inevitably always leads to my second law of Global Warming or "God Is In Control":
Whenever the mainstream media comes out and says that Global Warming is for real, we get hit with unusually cold weather.
Let's not forget the now infamous January 1996 Newsweek Global Warming Cover Story that came out during the blizzard of the century. Newsweek later blamed the blizzard on Global Warming. This put a big dent in the Anti-Global Warming movement, and they were forced to start calling it "Climate Change".
"The Obama Deception was getting more and more popular, and the establishment doesn't like the fact that it exposes the Left-Right paradigm and identifies Obama as a puppet," said Alex Jones.
By Elmer Beauregard
Nobody can dispute that there has been some global cooling in this last decade. Even though the land temperature charts aren't reliable, because the number of weather stations keeps changing and the stations are all at major airports or in parking lots. If the IPCC had their way I'm sure they would measure the entire earth's temperature from one weather station at LAX, just like they measure the entire planet's CO2 level from one station on top of a volcano in Hawaii.
Even with all the incoming data being skewed to show warming, it still shows some cooling over the last decade while CO2 is increasing.
Continue reading Shouldn't We Be Worried About Global Cooling?.
Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com
The Chinese system has nothing to do with "war" and everything to do with political oppression
When Senator Joe Lieberman attempted to justify draconian legislation that would provide President Obama with a figurative kill switch to shut down parts of the Internet, he cited the Chinese system of Internet policing as model which America should move towards.
Given the fact that Lieberman seeks to mimic the Chinese system as the goal of his Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, should it concern us that the Chinese government routinely orders Twitter and Facebook-like services to "purge sites of politically "sensitive" words and expressions," as the Financial Times reports today?
"Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too," Lieberman told CNN's Candy Crowley last month.
However, China's "war" is not against foreign terrorists or hackers, it's against people who dare to use the Internet to express dissent against government atrocities or corruption. China's system of Internet policing is about crushing freedom of speech and has nothing to do with legitimate security concerns as Lieberman well knows.
It's a system concentrated around state oppression of any individual or group that seeks to use the Internet to draw attention to political causes frowned upon by the authorities.
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After Lord Monckton's lengthy rebuttal yesterday to John Abraham's 83 minute critique, Professor Abraham has decided to remove 10 minutes of his presentation.
"Latest news - sent to me by two readers of Anthony's outstanding blog - is that Abraham, inferentially on orders from the Trustees of his university acting on advice from their lawyers, has (without telling me) re-recorded his entire 83-minute talk to take out the very many direct accusations of "misrepresentation", "complete fabrication", "sleight of hand" etc. etc. that he had hurled at me in the original version of his talk. For instance, he now seems to have appreciated his unwisdom in having accused me of having "misrepresented" the work of scientists I had not even cited in the first place.
Taking out his direct libels has reduced the length of his talk by 10 minutes. To my own lawyers, Abraham's retreat will be of interest, because it is in effect an admission that his talk is libelous, and that he and his university know it is libelous. Though his new version corrects some of the stupider and more egregious errors in the original, many crass errors remain, including errors of simple arithmetic that are surely disfiguring in a "scientist" presuming to correct mine."
Anchored by Andrea Canning - Original Air Date: Monday July 12, 2010
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Susan Ferrechio , Washington Examiner
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to bring a comprehensive energy and climate bill to the Senate floor by the end of the month that will include a cap on carbon emissions produced by the nation's utilities.
Reid announced his plans after huddling with President Obama about the Senate's July agenda and said he wants to introduce the bill, which has not yet been written, the week of July 26.
Reid was vague on details, but signaled he wants the bill to require the nation's electricity providers to pay a price for emitting carbon, which the EPA says will lead to global warming.
Thanks to Climate Realists
Christopher Monckton has issued an extensive and detailed critique and refutation of a widely circulated 83-minute personal attack on him by one J.P. Abraham, a lecturer in fluid mechanics at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota.
Professor Abraham's 83-minute lecture with 115 slides purported to demolish a talk about climate change that Lord Monckton had given in St. Paul, Minnesota, in October 2009. More than 2.5 million people have seen Monckton's talk on
In June 2010, John Abraham posted up an attack on the internet via the servers of the University of St. Thomas. Within a week, Monckton's response letter with its near-500 questions was in Abraham's hands, to which he has not responded as challenged.
Monckton publicly accuses Abraham of -
Bad faith in having "furtively" spent eight months preparing his savage personal attack behind Monckton's back, entirely contrary to accepted academic practice;
Malice in having made dozens of serious allegations about Monckton when he knew the allegations he had made were false in every material particular, or had no reason to believe the allegations were true;
Appealing to a false authority on the subject of the climate that, as a lecturer in fluid mechanics, he did not possess (Monckton demonstrates Abraham appears at times incompetent even in arithmetic);
Academic dishonesty in having repeatedly made up statements that Monckton had not made, having put those statements to other scientists, having obtained hostile responses from those scientists, and having included those hostile responses in his attack as though they were responses to what Monckton had said; and
Lying repeatedly by misstating what Monckton had said and then attacking those misstatements; by falsely and repeatedly alleging that Monckton had misrepresented scientists' results when Monckton had either accurately represented the results or not cited the scientists he was alleged to have misrepresented at all; by unjustifiably and repeatedly impugning Monckton's integrity, qualifications, experience, and competence in a manner that he knew to be inaccurate; and by repeatedly taking Monckton's words out of their context and making a willful nonsense of them.
Continue reading MUST READ: Response to John Abraham by Lord Monckton.
Why the environment is no longer a surefire political winner.
Just three years ago the politics of global warming was enjoying its golden moment. The release in 2006 of Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, had riveted global audiences with its predictions of New York and Miami under 20 feet of water. Within 12 months, leading politicians with real power were on board. Germany's Angela Merkel, dubbed the "climate chancellor" by her country's press, arranged a Greenland photo op with a melting iceberg and promised to cut Europe's emissions by 20 percent by 2020. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who called climate change a scourge equal to fascism, offered 60 percent by 2050. In December 2007, the world got its very first green leader. Harnessing the issue of climate change, Kevin Rudd became prime minister of Australia, ready to take on what he called "the biggest political, economic, and moral challenge of our times." Now, almost everywhere, green politics has fallen from its lofty heights.
Following two of the harshest winters on record in the Northern Hemisphere--not to mention an epic economic crisis--voters no longer consider global warming a priority. Just 42 percent of Germans now worry about climate change, down from 62 percent in 2006. In Australia, only 53 percent still consider it a pressing issue, down from 75 percent in 2007. Americans rank climate change dead last of 21 problems that concern them most, according to a January Pew poll. Last month Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, blasting climate change as a "sideshow" to global economic issues, canceled the meeting of environment ministers that has preceded the G8 or G20 summit every year but one since 1994. Merkel has slashed green-development aid in the latest round of budget cuts, while in Washington, Barack Obama seems to have cooled on his plan to cap emissions. In perhaps the most striking momentum reversal for environmental politicians, last month Rudd became the first leader to be destroyed by his green policies. Flip-flopping over planned emissions cuts as the opposition exploited Australian voters' flagging support for climate measures, he was finally ousted by party rebels.
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Global warming alarmists claim vindication after last year's data manipulation scandal. Don't believe the 'independent' reviews.
Last November there was a world-wide outcry when a trove of emails were released suggesting some of the world's leading climate scientists engaged in professional misconduct, data manipulation and jiggering of both the scientific literature and climatic data to paint what scientist Keith Briffa called "a nice, tidy story" of climate history. The scandal became known as Climategate.
Now a supposedly independent review of the evidence says, in effect, "nothing to see here." Last week "The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review," commissioned and paid for by the University of East Anglia, exonerated the University of East Anglia. The review committee was chaired by Sir Muir Russell, former vice chancellor at the University of Glasgow.
By Dr. Tim Ball Thursday, Canada Free Press
There were two British investigations into the behavior of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) exposed in leaked emails. Both reports provide no answers, no explanations and are only telling for what they did not ask or do and how they were manipulated. The blatant level of cover up is frightening. These are acts by people who believe they are unaccountable because they have carried out the greatest scam in history with impunity. The degree of cover up in both cases is an arrogant in-your-face statement that we are the power and are not answerable to anyone. Their cover up almost belittles the ones they are investigating.
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